From: "Ahmad Risk" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Revalidation


> On Wed, 12 May 2004 19:48:20 +0100, Fay Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> >There is a sort of myth that non-clinical medical practice is not really
> >medicine and doesn't require or isn't amendable to revalidation. The GMC
> >concept of medical practice is anything which needs or requires a medical
> >qualification. Would you have your job if you weren't a doctor (this
> doesn't
> >mean could a non-doctor do your job). If you are employed & some non
> >employed people can do the appraisal / training / PDP stuff & if not you
> >will be doing it via the portfolio / folder route.
>
> Fay
>
> It is not about not wanting to do appraisal, it is about 'how', when one
> does not see patients.  How would you assess my competence as a clinician,
> when I do not have a portfolio or folder or patients to write about?

Ahmad
Sorry I have given you the wrong impression; I didn't for a memoent think
you didn't want to do appraisal; I got the impression you didn't have an
appraisal system via your work. If you are not a clinician your competence
as one isn't relevant. Very many medical practitioners are not clinicians.
You will have a portfolio / folder describing your medical practice in some
sort of "Good Medical Practice" - aligned framework.

Lots of other people have this sort of revalidation type reacreditation
exercise, it doesn't depend on being a clinician or even a doctor. There are
various links on the GMC's revalidation section of its website (don't ask me
for the URL, I'm not an informatician)

> (Incidentally, what I do requires medical knowledge, which does not have
> to be 'registered' medical knowledge, if you see what I mean - once a
> doctor, always a doctor and it is hard to 'un-doctor someone just because
> they do not see patients or choose not to be registered - and, not
> registered in one country does not mean not registerd in all countries!)

Ask yourself - if you were struck off - or didn't pay your GMC subs - woudl
you still be able to do your present job?  If so, it's not medical practice!
--
Fay